You've always known the world was being run into the ground by a bunch of brainless cowards, but the future belongs to great minds like you...so steal tomorrow from them and make it your own.
It remains unclear if the Yorkes are from the present and gained access to time-travel or if they are in fact from some point in the future or some completely alternate timeline.
When the Yorkes commissioned the creation of Old Lace, they had it telepathically connected to Gert, but physically incapable of harming anyone in her immediate family.
Trivia
Dale once mentioned that the High Evolutionary has a nervous breakdown in "two thousand and--" but is then cut off before he can finish.
The Yorkes seem to use the term "shock" as a swear word, similarly to individuals in the 2099 A.D. timeline.
